Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
S41
travellers, having saved their pursevS, were far
from possessing an implacable disposition.
They
therefore quickly procured him a priest ; and
no sooner did the ecclesiastic
^pply the head to
the body, than this devout plunderer related,
that as soon as he v/as beheaded, the devils
seized his soul to carry it to hell, but vi^ere prevented
by the Virgin. On account of thi pleasure
which his fastings altbrded her, she would
not permit his soul to be separated from his
body, till after confession. Now, the wonderful
in this story does not consist in the talking
of the head after its separation from the body ;
for that is a mere straw amors o; the works of the
Virgin. It lies entirely in the safety which a
soul possesses after confession. If a person
have only unbosomed hin\self to a priest before
death, the devil may enjoy the pleasure of seeing
him in purgatory ; but if he expect to get
him farther, he will be miserably disappointed.
Pelbart, indeed,
narrates this story only from
report. The reader, however, has no reason
to doubt either the truth of his narration, or
the power of the Virgin ; for he himself witnessed
another miracle no less extraordinary.
A certain wiclced villain, he informs us, fell into
the Danube, and remained under water for
threo days.
In ordinary cases, there would certainly
have been some danger of drowiiing ;
to the rogue's great surprise,
but
he was greeted in
this